My mother, Mary Tierney, and I shared an interest in art. While still in school, we each placed third in Statewide contests.
Mom would rekindle her love of artwork while I was still a child, and became a semi-professional oil painter in Kansas during the 1960s and 70s. There were a number of articles about her colorful landscapes and portraits -- the one shown below left featured a baby portrait of me (Michael) and the other was the official portrait that she painted for Miss Kansas Debra Barnes, after she won Miss America in 1968. As an adolescent it was nice having visits from the reigning Miss America.

Pictured here is a tiny fraction of her work. All of the following graced the inside covers of my Wild Stars - Volume Three comics. They are also now availabe in full color for the first time in a collected edition in the hardcover (only ... the trade paperback is still black & white) release of
Wild Stars: The Book of Circles -- Recalibrated 35th Anniversary Edition.

I hope you enjoy them.

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